kurusii

Funny you mention that. I saw a sticker that said "MongoDB: Snapchat for databases:"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWhO2jIUYAAbuiK.png

I didn't "work my way up" from prescription drugs. I have debilitating depression, to the point where I can't get out of bed most days. I can't say I have much to live for, honestly. I am just functional enough to realize that I am deeply unsatisfied with my life.

I've tried many different antidepressants. My psychiatrist told me that if the next few medications didn't work, he mentioned that I might want to consider electroshock therapy.

I tried heroin with my brother a few years ago, and I got high of course (so my opinion is admittedly skewed,) but it just gave me a couple precious hours of what I imagine it life could be. I work in fintech, so I have to take drug tests, but I've used it off and on since.

I don't want to be high. I just want a life where I actually want to live, an "aspiration" I've had for years.

Maybe my desires are even more skewed due to having gotten high, and knowing that I will forever have a "high bar" for however good it made me feel, but in general it just feels like the quote says, "It gives you a taste of heaven and drags you down to hell." But I was in hell already.

That was a fun read. Thanks for the link.

On a somewhat related topic, I worry a lot about things on the internet disappearing, most often simply due to neglect (domain expiry, companies being bought, et c.) I try to save everything I can that I find interesting, in fear of it never being available again.

That said, it makes me very happy to see emails from 1987 archived online--so happy that I've even saved a copy.

I don't remember where I read it, but apparently Apple committed to the Lightning port for a certain number of years when speaking to accessory manufacturers.

Wow, that sounds awful.

It's a losing situation all around, between the company not getting what it intended (firing the pre-existing dead weight, and getting rid of scapegoats) and, of course, the employees who are duped into joining just to be fired later.

Which companies do this?

It's just growth hacking. You'd think here, at least, people would be used to it by now. /s

As a side note (not to you particularly--I see this a lot), you can't delete a comment once a reply is made in order to preserve context to the replies. This is probably for people like me, who come after the replies are written.

With this in mind, why side-step the inability to delete your comment by just replacing it with something else? It's technically allowed, but isn't that against the spirit of the original rule?

Did you forget footnote number one?